Fri, Oct 29, 9:00pm - Dendy Newtown
HOOKED

Director:
Pavel Sanaev

130 min/RUS/2010

*AUS PREMIERE*
Hands down the hottest cyber-action film that the festival programming team has ever seen, and one of the very best of the current crop of high octane genre flicks to have exploded out of Russia.

Max and his friends are a typical group of college-aged kids. The one thing that makes them different is that they are all competitive gamers. Winning a gaming tournament, Max and each of his friends are given an advance copy of a new game by the competition's sponsor: a game that, unknown to them, contains a flaw that will overwhelm their computers and their minds, planting within each of them the real life equivalents of the video game skills they are so blessed with in the virtual world. In an instant these twenty something year old kids become: Gifted martial artists; perfect marksmen; brilliant drivers; flawless tacticians with the skills needed to execute any wild scheme they may dream up. But headhunted by a shadowy espionage agency, the group of friends split, turning against themselves and the forces out to eradicate them.

"Simply one of the best films about video games and gaming culture ever made" - Twitch

Screening partner:
Russian Resurrection


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